Monthly Archives: November 2011

I wrote the first version of this short story in 2008. Cath Kenneally read a draft version of it on Writers’ Radio (Radio Adelaide) in 2009. It was first published in print form in the anthology Short and Twisted 2011 (Celapene Press.)

On Adelaide Poetry Gig Guide Daniel Watson has just let us know that the Rundle Street store now has new classic anthologies; new ranges on love, loss, war & haiku, local and Australian poets including Geoff Goodfellow’s,‘Waltzing With Jack Dancer’ ,Wet Ink, Luke Davies’ ‘Interferon Psalms’, Kerryn Tredrea’s ‘Adventures in Captivity’ (now in its 2nd ed.), reprints of Sean King’s ‘Empire of the Mind.’

Adelaide doesn’t have the luxury of Melbourne’s Collected Works (Australia’s biggest – and possibly only – dedicated poetry bookshop) but we are well served by the new Dymocks range as well as Dark Horsey at Lion Arts, Imprints in Hindley Street and Adelaide Booksellers for second-hand and out-of-print.

I was in Sa Pa (mountains of northern Vietnam) two days ago when I had emails from Maggie Emmett of Friendly Street & Julie Walker of RiAus to say that my poem Moths and butterflies had been chosen as a finalist in the RiAus Science Poetry Competition and featured as FS Poem of the Month for November.

Strangely, the day before we’d been on a hike to the Black Hmong village of Cat Cat where we’d seen multitudes of unfamiliar butterflies…